Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story could have been a gut-busting comedy, but unfortunately, it missed the mark almost completely. Now I'm not saying there isn't laughs to be had, there are a few very funny lines as well as a song called "Let's Duet" which was very funny, but besides that number and a few lines, the movie was a mess and I was incredibly bored. The actors do just fine but does John C. Riley deserve a Golden Globe nomination? No way! I thought Hot Rod was much funnier, and much better and it had about the same type of humor. So.. I just can't recommend this movie. It wasn't anything special at all.

5/10 (C-)

This film deserves more love than it is getting...

Walk Hard, Ron - - The Dewey Cox Story will be vindicated in the fullness of time.

Just pop back into this thread in another year or two, and you will find the usual late-to-the-party DVDheads quoting lines and wondering aloud how they missed this movie's classic comedy status when it was released back in 2007.

(For an example of current love, try reading the efilmcritic.com reviews of Walk Hard - - their slate of reviewers often has wildly varying tastes, especially with comedies, but with this film they have expressed the universal love it deserves. Here are their five separate reviews: one, two, three, four, five...)

The funniest line in the movie was...

It's not about exotic animals! It's about love you piece of shit!

bABA knows...


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I went to see Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story for the third time tonight, and it became obvious to me that I had seriously under-rated this film. I ultra-rarely change my grades for films that I have already rated, but this film merits, nay... demands a higher designation. That # is one. Walk Hard has just graduated to my #1 movie of 2007. (My new and final "out of 5" rating will follow this review, so stay tuned...)

Congratulations Dewey!!!



So the toppermost of my top ten now looks like this (with the final four to follow):

#1 - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
#2 (tie) - Hairspray & The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
#4 - Juno
#5 - The Invasion
#6 - The Last Legion[/i]



BTW, my latest favorite line's gotta be:



This movie is simply brilliant. Ya think parody of this quality is easy? Pppphaaawwww! It's the surprise masterpiece of film for the year 2007. Ladies and gentlemen... witness the perfect hilarity that is Dewey.

I can't wait for more people to Walk Hard to catch on to this rocket! This Cox is gonna be huge!!! Climb on for a Beautiful Ride!!!!!

WOW - - what a fantastic year for movies 2007 turned out to be...

My new rating for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, my #1 film of 2007, is:

31 out of 5.

I agree, just the way he says it is hilarious! I just bought the soundtrack and laugh every time during walk hard when he says....

As most people know I thought the film looked awful and about 5 minutes in I was 100% certain I was correct. Then it all changed. The movie was fuckin hilarious. The "Duet" song was so fucking hilarious, I couldnt stop laughing.

B+

Not as good as Superbad but better than Knocked Up.

The songs are very funny, and the montages are great, especially the Duet and final song. Tim Meadows, his two wives were great. Everyone else was just kind of, hey looks whose here. John C Reily is awesome, a great singer, and has a good timing for comedy and drama. His problem however is that, since Talladega Nights, people gave him material that was suitable for Will Farell, who could make it a lot funnier. John just misses that extra touch of making weak dialogue great.

It's funny and certainly not on the bad scale. I'll give it a B

My oh my, some people don't understand a great spoof when it's sitting right in front of their eyes. "Walk Hard" was a gem. Just like "The Incredibles," it made fun of an overdone genre while at the same time completely embracing it. The references were so sharp, the humor so over-the-top, the actors so immersed in their characters, and the story so engrossing that "Walk Hard" turned out to be one of the most fun times I had at a movie released in 2007. John C. Reilly was just fantastic in his first big leading role, while Jenna Fischer and Tim Meadows were the most fun supporting characters, and guys like Jack Black, Frankie Muniz, Paul Rudd, and the Indian guy from the 40 Year Old Virgin had a blast in their short little cameos. Things sometimes went over-the-top, but the fact that they were such clever mockeries at the same time made up for it. From the references to movies like "Star Wars" on top of all those biopics, and some very clever scenes involving Bob Dylan, The Temptations, The Beatles [of course], Buddy Holly, and Elvis Presley [although his scene was probably the weakest of the bunch], the movie managed to venture outside just spoofing other movies of the same grenre and spoofed people and events and even common movie clichés that nobody else has been willing to make fun of. And on top of all that, the music was terrific. All in all, I just had a blast watching "Walk Hard," a spoof the way they're supposed to be made.

A-

Judd Apatow is God. It's hard to think this was the worst of his three films this year. He got two As and an A+ from me. BEAST.

I think i laughed the hardest was whenever his life would get really bad, it would randomly cut to him pulling a sink out of the wall. I always laugh when people throw shit around when they are mad in serious movies.
PURE COMEDY GENIUS!

The Water Horse? That's low... even on the bradley scale!

I went looking for your review of The Water Horse, but couldn't find it anywhere...

Yeah, I really loved its absurdist humour a lot of the time, but it really dries up by the end and I really didn't find myself laughing as much as I did at the beginning of the film. About the time the film starts jumping ahead in time really dramatically, it starts losing its funny, and the end jokes nearly all fall flat. The musical numbers are terrific, though, simultaneously being hilarious while also being honest-to-goodness great songs in their own right. The Let's Duet montage is brill. And, of course, there's the wonderfully random stuff, like John C. Reilly playing himself at age 14, or the mockingly melodramatic acting of Tim Meadows and Jenna Fischer, or the shocking full-frontal male nudity, which is so obviously an attempt to receive surprise laughter that it's a pretty fantastic joke. If only the film had sustained its momentum, it could have been one of the best comedies of the year.

I enjoyed it, but it's one of those comedies you smirk and nod your head at a lot of the time as opposed to actually laughing. I think they played it the right way though. Had they gone broader a lot of the satire would've been lost. That said, it did make me laugh more than once (although most of the major laughs came from Tim Meadows: "And you never once paid for drugs... not once.")

Also, the music was surprisingly terrific. I particularly like the Lyle Lovett/Jewel/Some Other Guy rendition of Walk Hard at the end:



B+

That'd be Jackson Browne to you young whippersnappers...

My guess is it's more of a regional thing. A cursory glance at his wikipedia page reveals he's only ever had 2 songs chart in the UK, one outside the top 40 (which is as high as we report the charts here in Blighty, and the other didn't even crack the top 10.

There are certain parts of US culture we Brits just don't get exposed to. I'd wager 90% of the British population would shrug if you mentioned Garth Brooks.

Not me, mind you. Although I might pull a face and spit at the floor.

Jackson Browne had only one great album way back in 1977 titled Running On Empty (at least imho) - - but it is an all time classic...

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY - 6/10 (B-)

During the first half I would have given this a B. I found it quite funny. But the second half dragged and wasn't nearly as funny. And I accidentily chose the theatrical version instead of the unrated version, and even though I'm curious what's in the unrated version I'm glad I didn't end up watching it considering it's 2 hours long and the theatrical version is only an hour and 36 minutes. I was more than ready for it to end by the time it did.

And the hilarious Kristen Wiig was seriously underused and not given the chance to show her great comic potential.

I thought it started off a little shaky, I'll echo that the Elvis, 50s, first wife scenes kind of didn't work, but once Fischer shows up (by the way... she's freakin hot!) and he goes on tour with Tim Meadows, etc., it pretty much takes off. I especially loved his 60s "injustice" stage... I think my favorite scene is where he's Bob Dylan and singing that incomprehensible song about frogs and rabbits and stuff, I pretty much died during that. "Beautiful Ride" and the montage that accompanies it is awesome too. Anyways it's hard to pick out the random little things in this movie that are so funny, it only works in context. I loved it.

4.5/5

"He needs... more blankets!"

Walk Hard has its moments (lovedddd the duet with Fischer, hilarious stuff), but it's incredibly inconsistent. There's too many points in the film where all the jokes fall flat. It's decent, but disappointing.

Jenna Fischer is so, so hot.

**

Wow, what a funny movie. John C. Reilly did an amazing job as Dewey Cox. Plus, I think this is Apatow's best work to date.

A

Definitley one of my favorite films of last year

While it was well-reviewed, I still consider this a hugely under-rated movie, and it deserved a lot more at the box office...I was laughing the whole time.

A-

This movis is just so, sooo funny. I thought I was gonna die in the theater of laughter. Apatow's best is Superbad, but this is second. It still makes me sick that this flopped so badly, this deserved Knocked Up numbers. Very mixed reviews here for it, but I'm glad some of you loved it.


A